2000s in Grand Lake Meadows

2000s Passkey

Instructions

Find the answers to the questions on this page to get your 2000s puzzle piece and passkey.
The answers may be found on any of the tabs you see on this page: Historical Map Scans, Animated/Interactive,
What do these images tell us, or 2000s history.
With five correct answers you'll receive your 2000s Passkey and a completed puzzle piece.

Once you've collected all 5 History passkeys and puzzle pieces proceed to the HISTORY PUZZLE page to put all the pieces together

Questions:

Q1. Whas is different about these maps: Colours Level of detailBigger other
Q2. A Legend is:

Q3. In a Title Block we would find:

Q4. In the 2006 map which was prepared for the Grand Lake Meadows Project Management Committee, a Wetland which is "<1.5m" is designated as a: (3 words)

Animated/Interactive Maps

(1) Transportation routes:

Increased dependence on land travel. The popularity of road travel for recreation and transport of goods, materials and people.

(2) Level of Detail:

An increasing level of detail is displayed on maps from the 2000s. The colour image is from 2006, and the black and white from 1933.

Roll your mouse over the image to see the colour image change to black and white image.

(3) Content/Purpose of maps:

The purpose of the maps in the 2000s are different than they were in the 1700's. The maps from the 1700s and 1800s were mostly have record of property boundaries & the outline of sunken land, present day maps contain a much different level of detail and specialization.
A greater range of maps have been recently created, including maps showing:

Wetland classification

Outline of Protected Natural Areas

Ecosite classification

(4) Legend & Title block:

Nearly all of the present day maps contain clearly defined legends. We saw this start in the late 1900's and this has continued to present day maps.

A Legend is a visual representation of the maps contents. For example, in the image below, it shows what each colour in a map represents. So, if we look at this map, we can find out that the Blue colour reprents Lakes.

A Title block tells us what area the chart/map covers. In addition it may tell us the scale, projection, and datum of the map. In the following image we find:

What can we learn about the 2000s in Grand Lake Meadows from these Maps?

Improvement in technology and level of detail. Many specialized surveys to gather detail for specific purposes. For example, the wetland classification map goes into greater detial than previously seen.

Greater documentation regarding the content, purpose and details surrounding the data collected on the maps. This can be seen in the map legend and title bars.